The Man With No Name

Space

You know what freaks me out? The fact that someday, sometime, there will be the first time that an astronaut will accidentally be sent spinning out in space, never to be found again. It’s going to happen for real.

I’m reminded of what Jim Lovell said, when speaking about one of the many dangers Apollo 13 faced as it was trying to get home. He was speaking of having to get the re-entry angle just right, and if they didn’t, how they would end up orbiting forever between the Earth and the Moon, “a permanent monument to the space program.”